VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Menil Collection presents another in its Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye series.  Throughout the year, on the first Sunday of each month, a Houston artist talks about a work in the Menil Collection that has special meaning to him or her. The public is invited to these free, informal gallery discussions, which can be held in any Menil gallery or building (or outdoor space) of the artist’s choosing, begin at 3 p.m.

Sunday, September 6: John Runnels (pictured) on Twombly’s Rose Paintings.

Born near Hot Coffee, Mississippi, John Runnels received his B.F.A. from the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1985 he co-founded Mother Dog Studios, an alternative studio and exhibition space in downtown Houston. Runnels has worked as Co-Director of Buffalo Bayou ARTPARK, and with the University of Houston Sculpture Department and CACHH to establish an international artist-in residence program. He was commissioned by the city of Houston to design a series of text-based sculptures called “Portals” along Buffalo Bayou’s Sabine Promenade. Currently, he’s working on a public art project for the City of Phoenix.